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Films in First Peoples Shorts I: Canadian Visions

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  • Sirmilik
  • Zacharias Kunuk

  • Atanarjuat director Zacharias Kunuk's Genie–winning contribution to the National Parks Project — featuring an improvised score by Apostle of Hustle members Dean Stone and Andrew Whiteman and celebrated throat singer Tanya Tagaq — chronicles the effects of global warming on the icy terrain of Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut.
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  • Silent Tears
  • Shirley Cheechoo

  • The award-winning debut film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shirley Cheechoo chronicles the struggles of a Cree family as they face the dangers of illness and starvation during a brutal northern winter.
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  • Wapawekka
  • Danis Goulet

  • As Josh and his father bid farewell to their family cabin nestled among sacred sites in northern Saskatchewan, he discovers a connection between himself and his ancestors and decides how he will leave his own mark on history.
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  • Blood River
  • Kent Monkman

  • A young Aboriginal woman who wants to escape her adoptive white mother is haunted by hallucinatory visions of her brother, who is trying to survive on the streets of a big city.
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  • Cloudbreaker
  • Adam Garnet Jones

  • A young boy undertakes a dangerous ritual in order to become one with the sky in this dreamlike short.
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  • Choke
  • Michelle Latimer

  • A young man leaves the reservation and heads to the city, but discovers that he is still (literally) bound to his past in this visually arresting animated short.